Internet live stats say a lot about our digital surveillance: the internet knows way too much about us… Its insanely accurate, and knows by the millisecond when someone uploaded or posted anything. Also, a lot of people are on the internet every second, meaning the internet can track us all down at any moment of everyday via our internet activity.
In fact, via media consolidation, allows the owners of media to control the mass media, along with our private information, our locations and our contacts. The problem of surveillance based on media consolidation as well as media concentration is major. We are depending on the internet in so many different ways and we are severely unaware of how much the internet knows about us.
There needs to be changes in what information is legal to be owned by the internet and the owners of these numerous media platforms that mostly all of the world has access to and uses on a daily basis. The numbers do not lie, a big number of our planet is unaware of the violation of privacy that we face constantly, myself included. We need more activism to impose policies regarding the information the internet (Facebook and more platforms) can have access to and can’t, as this problem is threatening and unethical. Activism could go from revolts, to general awareness to those around you and your family members.
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